2013
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.78.3.456
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A Reassessment of Red Linear Pictographs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas

Abstract: Red Linear is one of four presently defined prehistoric pictograph styles in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and Coahuila, Mexico. Based on interpretation of images and two experimental radiocarbon dates, the style was presumed to have been brought into the region by intrusive bison hunters around 1280 B.P. This would place production of Red Linear after the large, polychromatic Pecos River style paintings (4200–2750 B.P.). However, during a recent rock art recording project we identified Red Li… Show more

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“…; Boyd et al . ), we did not place these figures into any of the accepted stylistic categories for Lower Pecos rock art—hence the classification as unidentified. These figures share a resemblance with some of the black Red Linear figures at 41VV76.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
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“…; Boyd et al . ), we did not place these figures into any of the accepted stylistic categories for Lower Pecos rock art—hence the classification as unidentified. These figures share a resemblance with some of the black Red Linear figures at 41VV76.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Also at Panther Cave, a black Red Linear style anthropomorph (<1 cm in width) recently discussed by Boyd et al . () has an elevated manganese level of 424 ppm Mn.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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